Mankind caused a lot of harm to their environment unintentionally during agriculture. Thus nowadays productiontechniques that are compatible with nature, making the right use of the resources, targeting sustainabledevelopment, looking after animal welfare are beginning to spread throughout the world. Especially organicagriculture among those techniques gained a seat as it depends on customer preference. Organic agriculture thathas the following five fundamental features: compatibility to nature, self sufficiency, sustainability, welfare,traceability began with the production of dried grape, dried figs, dried apricots and nuts in our country during the1980s with the contractual agriculture system intending to export. During the following years, hardshell and driedfruits, frozen fruits and vegetables, fresh fruits and vegetables, spices and legumes followed the previous ones inexport. Also, production and exportation of rose water, rose oil, olive oil, cotton and textile products increasedconsiderably. In our country where there is a wide variety of products for organic agriculture, in eastern black searegion tea and nuts are the most cultivated products. Organic agriculture is carried out in every province of theregion, the contribution of provinces in percentage as follows: Rize 42%, Ordu 25%, Artvin 13%, Trabzon 10%,Gumushane and Giresun 5%. Organic stock raising is done only in Gumushane and Ordu. Gümüşhane has the mostpromising potential for organic stock raising.